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Brent

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iconnumber posted 03-19-2008 08:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Brent     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

Knowing that Scott & June have a notable collection of cheese scoops, I thought I would share this item by Frank Whiting which looks to be a very small cheese scoop. The pattern is PURITAN, introduced around 1894. It appears to be all original, not a conversion from a teaspoon. It came with a number of circa 1900 serving pieces, all with the same A monogram, so I think it is genuine. So, is it a tiny cheese scoop, or something else? It it is a cheese scoop, why so small? Maybe a cheese sampler:-)?

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Scott Martin
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iconnumber posted 03-22-2008 10:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Scott Martin     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We have small one like your example in the Mothers pattern. When we first saw it it was a conundrum because it is a Stilton cheese scoop form but was too small to use as a proper cheese scoop. Later we learned these were sold as salt/spice spoons.

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Dale

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iconnumber posted 03-23-2008 02:05 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dale     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
People who seemed to know what they were talking about have told me that this was used with medicines. The salt spice makes sense.

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